Legal Opinion
Mead v. Phillips
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 30, 1943No. 8149PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Associate Justice.
Thomas Newkirk Phillips, in his will, bequeathed his household furniture and furnishings and personal effects and jewelry to his wife Mary Elizabeth Phillips, during her life, and thereafter to his two sisters. All the rest of his estate he devised and bequeathed to his sister Katharine and the Washington Loan and Trust Company, in trust, (1) to pay the net income to his sister Katharine, to be used by her for the care of his wife during her life; (2) to use part of the corpus of the trust for the same purpose, if this became necessary; (3) upon the death of his…
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